Cheese

[tʃiːz] or [tʃiz]

Definition

(noun.) a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.

(verb.) wind onto a cheese; 'cheese the yarn'.

(verb.) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); 'Cheese it!'.

Typist: Toni--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

(n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

(n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

(n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

Checked by Kathy

Definition

n. (slang) the correct thing of excellent quality

n. a wholesome article of food made into a round form from the curd of milk coagulated by rennet separated from the whey and pressed into a hard mass.—ns. Cheese′-cake a cake made of soft curds sugar and butter or whipped egg and sugar; Cheese′-hop′per the larva of a small fly remarkable for its leaping power found in cheese; Cheese′-mite a very small insect which breeds in cheese; Cheese′-mong′er a dealer in cheese; Cheese′-par′ing (Shak.) paring or rind of cheese.—adj. mean and parsimonious.—ns. Cheese′-press a machine in which curds for cheese are pressed; Cheese′-renn′et the plant Ladies' bed-straw so called because used as rennet in curdling milk; Cheese′-vat a vat or wooden case in which curds are pressed; Chees′iness.—adj. Chees′y having the nature of cheese.—Cheese it (slang) stop have done run off.—Green Cheese cheese not yet dried.—To make cheeses to whirl round and then sink down suddenly so as to make the petticoats stand out like a cheese.

Typist: Veronica